Capture of Breslau

The Capture of Breslau (early August 1805) was a battle of the Napoleonic Wars that occurred when Emperor Napoleon I of the First French Empire and a French army of 994 troops captured the city of Breslau, Siilesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) from its 600-strong Prussian garrison under Valentin Kallenbach without firing a shot. The French army advanced north from Vienna after Michel Ney was given command of the city's defenses, and Napoleon and his army surrounded the city and offered to peacefully enter the city. Rather than face the impending slaughter, Kallenbach decided to surrender the city over to the French.